Sudan (sdn)

Sudan

Sudan ranks 2,977th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ciudad Real, Nykøbing Falster, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Memorable people born in Sudan include Tayeb Salih, Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf, and Osman Hussein. Memorable people who died in Sudan include Gaafar Nimeiry. Sudan has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many politicians. Sudan is located in Sudan.

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the southeast, and South Sudan to the south. Sudan has a population of 50 million people as of 2024 and occupies 1,886,068 square kilometres, making it Africa's third-largest country by area and the third-largest by area in the Arab League. It was the largest country by area in Africa and the Arab League until the secession of South Sudan in 2011; since then both titles have been held by Algeria. Sudan's capital and most populous city is Khartoum. Read more on Wikipedia